Guillermo Del Toro confirms he will direct The Buried Giant

In 2015, producer Scott Rudin scrambled to grab the rights to author Kazuo Ishiguro’s new historical novel. the buried giant. The film languished in development limbo, but in a recent interview with The telegraph on his Oscar nomination PinocchioGuillermo del Toro has said he plans to adapt the stop-motion book himself as a sequel. He has now officially confirmed that he is making the new film for Netflix.

Ishiguro’s book is set in a mythologized 5th-century Britain, where an elderly couple decides to embark on a journey in search of their son they haven’t seen for several years. Standing in the way of his seemingly simple quest, however, is a mysterious fog that envelops the land, causing amnesia in all its inhabitants. Trolls, orcs, dragons and giants are also a problem.

“the buried giant continues my animation partnership with Netflix and our pursuit of stop-motion as a way to tell complex stories and build limitless worlds,” del Toro says in an “It is a great honor and greater responsibility for me to direct this script than Dennis Kelly and I’m adapting Kazuo Ishiguro’s deep and imaginative novel. Kelly, of course, recently wrote Netflix Matilda musical.